We had to find a way to put Internet Explorer back into the hands of the masses in a more aggressive manner.
I lol'd. So Windows 8 was just a ruse to stop the hemorrhaging of IE?
In order to facilitate this internal metric we needed to also scale back Silverlight’s popularity given when you think about it’s future roadmap and Internet Explorers the two will end up competing with one another.
This is so utterly clueless - as if Silverlight actually has any popularity whatsoever. I am a.Net (C#) developer, I will not touch silverlight with a 10 foot pole (and yes I have spent a significant amount of time trying it out), nor will any other.Net developer I know.
Once we’ve placed Internet Explorer onto many devices worldwide we will then ask developers to fork their beloved HTML5 in a way that lets them access Windows 8 further. This in turn will help us regain the lost dominance we once had...
Openly saying they are going to a) force IE down people's throats and then b) Embrace, extend, and extinguish
Making a copy of something you already have a license for is not illegal. You are making a false analogy by comparing it to stealing from a store since you are not only taking the bits, but you are taking the physical media/box/materials.
A corporation is a a group of people, these people have rights and interests.
For the last time No, a corporation is not a group of people in the sense that it consists of people, rather it is an association of people. It is a legal fiction that can be bought and sold. It is an asset. It is as much a person as a building a car or a house, and no more.
Please stop spouting this crap that corporations are people. It is just plain asinine.
Perhaps Canonical actually wants secure boot and are willing to use a different boot loader in order to use it (and mitigate the fear of FSF incase there are technical problems)
Try reading the whole article not just the first sentence. What you quoted is the introductory sentence which states what other studies have found. This study is finding something quite different.
However, recent studies suggest that not all religious beliefs are equal in this respect. Though supernatural punishment is associated with increases in normative behavior, laboratory research reveals the concept of supernatural benevolence to be associated with decreases in normative behavior
As predicted, rates of belief in heaven and hell had significant, unique, and opposing effects on crime rates.
Yes, but if you actually RTFA, such a religion cannot include a heaven. So your only choices are a) play nice and when you die you enter the void or b) dont play nice, you'll go to prison and when you die go to hell.
If I'd RTFA instead of just the chart I would have seen this:
As predicted, rates of belief in heaven and hell had significant, unique, and opposing effects on crime rates. Belief in hell predicted lower crime rates, = 1.941, p<.001; whereas belief in heaven predicted higher crime rates
And the title of the article is "Divergent Effects of Beliefs in Heaven and Hell on National Crime Rates"
I still think the slashdot summary is misleading.
If I'm reading this right, the actual statistics show that belief in Heaven increases crime by approximately the same rate as belief in in Hell decreases it.
So the net result is that believing in both has not statistical signifigance.
Belief in chart:
Heaven, Hell, Net Effect
0, 0, None
0, 1, Less Crime
1, 0, More Crime
1, 1, None
7-11 Speakout is garbage (I was on it previously). Their "unlimited data" is actually a proxy server that you need to jump through hoops to configure your phone (and their support will not help you). Even if you get it working it is so frakking slow it's not worth the $10.
Also the $25/mth is for 200 mins - not unlimited. For you to leave that off it just deceitful.
Just a jump over the 49th parallel (Canada) we have Wind Mobile (major cities only). $40 for pretty everything unlimited, no contract. You guys in the U.S. are getting screwed up the ass.
Slashdot Mirror
We had to find a way to put Internet Explorer back into the hands of the masses in a more aggressive manner.
I lol'd. So Windows 8 was just a ruse to stop the hemorrhaging of IE?
In order to facilitate this internal metric we needed to also scale back Silverlight’s popularity given when you think about it’s future roadmap and Internet Explorers the two will end up competing with one another.
This is so utterly clueless - as if Silverlight actually has any popularity whatsoever. I am a .Net (C#) developer, I will not touch silverlight with a 10 foot pole (and yes I have spent a significant amount of time trying it out), nor will any other .Net developer I know.
Once we’ve placed Internet Explorer onto many devices worldwide we will then ask developers to fork their beloved HTML5 in a way that lets them access Windows 8 further. This in turn will help us regain the lost dominance we once had...
Openly saying they are going to a) force IE down people's throats and then b) Embrace, extend, and extinguish
Making a copy of something you already have a license for is not illegal. You are making a false analogy by comparing it to stealing from a store since you are not only taking the bits, but you are taking the physical media/box/materials.
There's a difference between "well made" and "magically impervious to any kind of damage or defect imaginable".
Of which Apple products are neither.
A corporation is a a group of people, these people have rights and interests.
For the last time No, a corporation is not a group of people in the sense that it consists of people, rather it is an association of people. It is a legal fiction that can be bought and sold. It is an asset. It is as much a person as a building a car or a house, and no more.
Please stop spouting this crap that corporations are people. It is just plain asinine.
For fucks sake, citation needed. Include your sources or your comment is worthless.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Article is fail
That is all.
and lead halfwits everywhere
I think you mean to say laymen.
Please and thank you.
And why I will never buy one
Start using OpenID
Perhaps Canonical actually wants secure boot and are willing to use a different boot loader in order to use it (and mitigate the fear of FSF incase there are technical problems)
However, recent studies suggest that not all religious beliefs are equal in this respect. Though supernatural punishment is associated with increases in normative behavior, laboratory research reveals the concept of supernatural benevolence to be associated with decreases in normative behavior
As predicted, rates of belief in heaven and hell had significant, unique, and opposing effects on crime rates.
Yes, but if you actually RTFA, such a religion cannot include a heaven. So your only choices are a) play nice and when you die you enter the void or b) dont play nice, you'll go to prison and when you die go to hell.
Religion, no. Hell, yes. If humans believe in both Heaven and Hell there will be no net effect on the crime rates.
Ha! Suck it fundamentalist deists! You're on the no statistical significance side of the evolution fight this time!
Actually you did not. Belief and heaven and hell have exactly opposite effects on crime rates. The wording is misleading, but it is correct.
As predicted, rates of belief in heaven and hell had significant, unique, and opposing effects on crime rates. Belief in hell predicted lower crime rates, = 1.941, p<.001; whereas belief in heaven predicted higher crime rates
And the title of the article is "Divergent Effects of Beliefs in Heaven and Hell on National Crime Rates"
I still think the slashdot summary is misleading.
If I'm reading this right, the actual statistics show that belief in Heaven increases crime by approximately the same rate as belief in in Hell decreases it.
So the net result is that believing in both has not statistical signifigance.
Belief in chart:
Heaven, Hell, Net Effect
0, 0, None
0, 1, Less Crime
1, 0, More Crime
1, 1, None
The headline is making a very dangerous and intentional omission of fact here. http://www.plosone.org/article/slideshow.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0039048&imageURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0039048.t001
I think you missed the point of the quote.
+1 to parent. -1 to story. I think I've just about had it with the patently false summaries and articles from slashdot. Peace out.
Also, you don't have to live in the U.S.
FTFY
I think the lesson you should take away from his is that you should not buy your phone from your carrier. Ever.
7-11 Speakout is garbage (I was on it previously). Their "unlimited data" is actually a proxy server that you need to jump through hoops to configure your phone (and their support will not help you). Even if you get it working it is so frakking slow it's not worth the $10.
Also the $25/mth is for 200 mins - not unlimited. For you to leave that off it just deceitful.
Just a jump over the 49th parallel (Canada) we have Wind Mobile (major cities only). $40 for pretty everything unlimited, no contract. You guys in the U.S. are getting screwed up the ass.
The statistics are only for those apps that use Flurry. Journalism as its best - generalizing from a small sample.